Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Such a Cassandra

The dictionary definition of fascism is: "a governmental system with strong centralized power, permitting no opposition or criticism, controlling all affairs of the nation (industrial, commercial, etc.), emphasizing an aggressive nationalism." Falta pouco, é só apertar o cabresto sobre a imprensa, se bem que não contavam com a internet, o que vai dificultar a execução do projeto, vamos ver. Se a civilização é a sociedade da privacidade, a barbárie não liga pra essas frescuras. "There are to be no more private Germans,” said Friedrich Sieburg, a Nazi writer; “each is to attain significance only by his service to the state, and to find complete self-fulfillment in this service.” “The only person who is still a private individual in Germany,” boasted Robert Ley, a member of the Nazi hierarchy, after several years of Nazi rule, “is somebody who is asleep." Beleza, não sei por que me dou o trabalho de bater nos nazistas, nos fascistas tudo bem, dá pra entender. Se bem que, tirando aquele papo de superioridade racial, o programa do PT não é tão diferente assim do programa do partido nacional-socialista alemão. Gostei também dessa passagem da Ayn Rand, such a Cassandra. "I have stated repeatedly that the trend in this country is toward a fascist system with communist slogans. But what all of today’s pressure groups are busy evading is the fact that neither business nor labor nor anyone else, except the ruling clique, gains anything under fascism or communism or any form of statism—that all become victims of an impartial, egalitarian destruction."